He attended the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute, transferring to Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois, where he was a friend of Carl Sandburg, joined Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and graduated in 1895.

After he had finished the first two volumes of his Lincoln, Sandburg went to work assembling a book of songs out of hobo and childhood days and from the memory of songs others had taught him.

Sandburg served as a secretary to Emil Seidel, socialist mayor of Milwaukee from 1910 to 1912.

* Carl Sandburg: " The smartest and swiftest work as yet seen from Miss Clara Bow ".

Amtrak, the national passenger rail system, provides service to Galesburg, operating the California Zephyr, Carl Sandburg, Illinois Zephyr, and Southwest Chief daily in both directions between Chicago and points west from Galesburg ( Amtrak station ).

* Carl Sandburg lived in the village from 1945 until his death in 1967.

* Hurst, Richard, " My Bay ", Christopher Street ( New York: February 1994, issue 210 ), ISSN 0146-7921 ( written by a former Levittowner about Little League baseball, " the only tradition in our otherwise ahistoric lives of glass-ceiling experimental schools and clean theme-park summers ," recounting summers marching as the season began from Carl Sandburg Middle School to the ball fields south of Twin Oaks )

He also hosted a radio show, Your Ballad Man, in 1949 that was broadcast nationwide on the Mutual Radio Network and featured a highly eclectic program, from gamelan music, to Django Reinhardt, to Klezmer music, to Sidney Bechet and Wild Bill Davison, to jazzy pop songs by Maxine Sullivan and Jo Stafford, to readings of the poetry of Carl Sandburg, to hillbilly music with electric guitars, to Finnish brass bands – to name a few.

The latter show served as a " fall preview " for NBC-TV's 1969 – 1970 Saturday morning lineup, and was produced by Don Sandburg ( who was best known to Chicago-area TV viewers as " Sandy the Tramp " from WGN-TV's Bozo's Circus ) for NBC-TV.

* Upstream ( setting of 1922 Carl Sandburg poem from " Slabs of the Sunburnt West ", 1937 )

His books include three collections of essays from the Israelite and a biography of his friend, poet Carl Sandburg.

Frank W. Hoffmann, in Arts and Entertainment Fads, described McKuen's poetry as " tailor-made for the 1960s [...] poetry with a verse that drawled in country cadences from one shapeless line to the next, carrying the rusticated innocence of a Carl Sandburg thickened by the treacle of a man who preferred to prettify the world before he described it.

During 2010, Amtrak contacted officials from communities in northeastern Missouri and western Illinois regarding the feasibility of extending the Illinois Zephyr and Carl Sandburg southwards to Hannibal, Missouri and St. Louis.

After graduating from Carl Sandburg High School, he attended Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and University of Illinois at Chicago where he majored in history and theater.

The street names of Huntington are derived from the works of Carl Sandburg, and those of Macgill's Common come from the Folksongs of North America compilation recorded by Alan Lomax.

Street names are taken from the works of Carl Sandburg, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Aside from Allen, these historians included Carl Sandburg, Bernard DeVoto, Douglas Southall Freeman, Henry F. Pringle, and Allan Nevins ( before his Columbia appointment ).

The community produced numerous writers and journalists, of whom the most famous was poet-historian Carl Sandburg from Illinois.

When he goes to the hospital to see a doctor, he finds instead Blair Sandburg, an anthropologist from Rainier University who tells him that he's a Sentinel.

The issue featured works from E. E. Cummings, Gaston Lachaise, and Carl Sandburg.

Poet Carl Sandburg was partly responsible for the continued interest in the cinquain and in keeping Crapsey from obscurity through his poem " Adelaide Crapsey ".

From June until mid-August, live performances of Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories and excerpts from the Broadway play, The World of Carl Sandburg, are presented at the park amphitheater.

In addition, more than of personal belongings, primarily Sandburg ’ s library, were sent by train from their old house in Harbert, Michigan.

Sandburg Halls, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

The Sandburg Halls at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee consists of four high rise towers, with the tallest being the northern most tower reaching tall ( building ), and ( radio antenna ).

She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ( known then as the Columbia University Prize ) in 1919 for her collection The Old Road to Paradise, sharing the prize with Carl Sandburg, who won for his collection Corn Huskers.

He was born in Oxford, son of Wilford George Kendrew, reader in climatology in the University of Oxford and Evelyn May Graham Sandburg, art historian.

Carl Sandburg rented a room in this house where he lived for three years while he wrote the poem " Chicago ".

( 1923 – 1924 ) The Chicago literary group also included Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, Edgar Lee Masters, Witter Bynner, Arthur Davison Ficke, Floyd Dell, Vachel Lindsay and Sherwood Anderson.

* " Chicago " ( poem ), by Carl Sandburg

She was raised Roman Catholic, attended Carl Sandburg High School in Orland Park and the Chicago Academy for the Arts in Chicago.

There he struck up a what turned out to be a lifelong friendship with Chicago poet Carl Sandburg, who frequently mentions him in his book, American Songbag ( 1927 ).

During this time, she met Cowell, Rudhyar, and the leading Chicago poet Carl Sandburg whose writings she eventually set to music.

Carl Sandburg mentions Jan Kubelík in his Chicago Poems, 1916.

After WLW and WLWT's executive vice president took a position with Chicago broadcast giants WGN Radio and WGN-TV in 1956, Bell, Phillips and the show's writer / director / producer Don Sandburg came along, producing their own variety series, which included " The Wally Phillips Show " and " Midnight Ticker.

* 1985 Carl Sandburg Award of the Friends of the Chicago Public Library for best non-fiction book of 1984 for the book The Transfer Agreement.

In Chicago in the 1960s he opened the Civic Theater and financed The World of Carl Sandburg starring Bette Davis and Gary Merrill, as well as Eva Le Gallienne in Mary Stuart, directed by Sir Tyrone Guthrie, and Tennessee Williams ' " Garden District " featuring Cathleen Nesbitt and Diana Barrymore.

* The Illinois Zephyr ( 380 / 383 ) and the Carl Sandburg ( 381 / 382, added 30 October 2006 ): Chicago to Quincy

Between Chicago and Galesburg, Illinois, this train service uses the same double track ( BNSF, old CB & Q ) as three other Amtrak routes: the California Zephyr, the Southwest Chief, and the Carl Sandburg.

" Chicago " is a poem by Carl Sandburg, about the U. S. city of Chicago.

Sandburg moved to Chicago in 1912 after living in Milwaukee, where he had served as secretary to Emil Seidel, Milwaukee's Socialist mayor.

Chicago Poems established Sandburg as a major figure in contemporary literature.

Other allusions to the state's people, places, and events include the Black Hawk War, author Carl Sandburg, Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, the Sangamon River, the Chicago Cubs, the Sears Tower dubbed " Seer's Tower " ( now called Willis Tower ), and the localities of Jacksonville, Peoria, Metropolis, Savanna Caledonia, Secor, Magnolia, Kankakee, Evansville, and the several locations named Centerville, Illinois.